Generative AI Art — DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, Explained

Tracing the history of machine creativity

I shot scenes like this for years. Now I can generate it with AI. Credit: Nick St. Pierre

A class of cutting-edge machine learning techniques have become incredibly adept at generating new images (and now, videos) from scratch or from existing ones.

This is called image synthesis and has become one of the most popular use cases for…